State health officials on Monday confirmed a disputed TV report claiming some people who received a COVID-19 vaccine at the Oakland Coliseum’s mass vaccination site got less than the recommended dose.
After state officials vehemently denied the KTVU report last Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health now says anyone who got a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after 4:30 p.m. on February 28 and between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. on March 1 was given less than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended dose.
The findings were determined with the help of CDC experts and could impact about 6,300 people, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
"We cannot substantiate this TV station’s reporting and have serious concerns on the accuracy of the claims they are making," a Cal OES spokesperson said in a statement to KCBS Radio last week. "Neither the state of California nor FEMA are aware of any instance of even a single individual being under vaccinated on the Oakland Coliseum site."
State officials found that some may have gotten a 0.22-0.3 ml dose, short of the recommended 0.3 ml for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Any dose larger than 0.15 ml is "safe and does not require the dose to be repeated to protect people against COVID-19," according to a letter distributed to those impacted and obtained by the paper.
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